Effect of grammar-focused writing instruction on writing skills

Conclusion:
All in all, when planning a speaking skills lesson, be aware that using language in speech is not necessarily practice of speaking as a language skill. Developing the range of competencies that make ‘a good speaker’ takes focus on the ways that we speak to different people, and the ways we construct what we are saying. This is independent from the grammar and vocabulary we use in real life, so should be kept separate from pure language input in the language classroom.
The results of this study reflect the discovery of Watkins (2007), who suggest that students can acquire competence in language skills if they are exposed to meaningful language learning activities. Similarly, low achievers of the experimental group also showed better performance over the high achieving student in the control group because activity based learning provided more opportunities to the students to get actively involved in the lesson as compared to the conventional teaching, where only the teacher was doing the talking and the students were merely spectators and were passive in the learning process. As a result, the null hypothesis has been abandoned. This study confirmed the views of Kropp (1993) who believes that many students have not listened to the expressions or thoughts they are invited to read in the manuscripts. As a result, expressions that are familiar to students, that are related to their experiences, or that they know through conversation and listening activities, are used primarily in reading. The study findings are similar to that of Zahoor and Khurram’s (2018) study that found that low achievers of experimental group performed better than control group in writing skills. Moreover, the difference between the mean scores of high-level students in the experimental group and the control group with respect to reading performance was also significant at the (0.05) level. For this reason, the null hypothesis has been ruled out, in favor of the experimental group.
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